1. FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS <Dhammacakkappavattanasuttam>
SUFFERING (Imperfections)
ORIGIN OF SUFFERING (Cause)
CESSATION (letting go)
PATH: Noble Eightfold paths

2. ROOT CAUSE
RECOGNIZE WHAT IS SUFFERING FIRST (meditation/discipline/study/obstacles)
RECOGNIZE WHAT IS RESULT 果(neutral)
RECOGNIZE WHAT IS CAUSE 因 (+/-)
Does personal unhappiness mean suffering?
Unhappiness is the result – many times due to unwholesome mind.
CAUSE – WHOLESOME & UNWHOLESOME

3. Many factors + many forces = many causes (success); 1 cause (failure)
BEGINNING
External Factors
Internal Forces
Many factors + many forces = many causes (success); 1 cause (failure)

4. Beginning Internal Force - Strong Parami The Buddha - Wholesome Minds*
Holy People
Practising Beings
Human
Born human
- Strong Parami
- Wholesome Minds*
- jhana
- Meritorius deeds
- Harmlessness (intelligence, training, discipline, experience etc)

5. BBeginning External Factors
Kamma
Gender, Appearance
Intelligence, health etc
Family, Environment
(politics, education, etc)
- Weather
- Food
- Other persons
Internal Force
Consciousness

6. Beginning Guard 6 sense doors Know who you are –
Where do you come from?
Why are you here?
Where are you going?
“Cause” cannot be found from judging,
neither can you judge yourself...
Defiled minds see
all things unclear
“Apathy” is NOT equanimity.

7. MIDDLE External Factors? Internal Forces?
Man Made Disasters
Newspapers ….
Natural Disasters , 2011
Documentary:
China Pollution

8. END Birth – Cause of rebirth Rupa : Temperature, Nutriment,
Kamma, Consciousness
Attachments
Unwholesome: 2 or 1 (eg. Greed+ wrong view / Anger / ignorance )
akusla sadharana cetasika = 4
Wholesome: 2 or 1 ( Piti & Wisdom/ Piti /
Wisdom / Equanimity) + Right Speech / Karuna etc
sobhana sadharana cetasika = 19

9. Right Speech/ Right Action/ Right Speech & Right Action/ Karuna / Mudita / Panna

10. Sloth / Torpor